What No One Tells You About Parenting

In the Hospital

At 23-weeks-5-days pregnant, lying in the hospital, Erin, felt her water break. She knew the odds weren’t good for her little boy, arriving four months early. But she saw the confidence in her Neonatologist’s eyes, even as he explained the... Continue reading →

My mom friends are shocked when they see my daughter climbing the playground, wearing a holter monitor. They expect us to coddle her and treat her as super-fragile, because of her heart condition. But, we let her play hard and... Continue reading →

By Allison Wilkonson My brother and his wife just welcomed their second child into the world. While my sister-in-law was in the hospital with the newborn, my brother spent one last night with just their oldest. “His last night of full... Continue reading →

By Allison Wilkinson I have three children ages 5 and under. It goes without saying that we have seen our fair share of the inside of the emergency room. Most of the trips have been the result of the Murphy’s... Continue reading →

I once visited a friend who’d recently become a new mom, and I naively asked how she was doing. “Sometimes, when my husband and I have sex now,” the very candid mother told me, “It feels like I just gave... Continue reading →

At my birthing class, our instructor kept telling us that one in three of us would have a c-section. “Well, that sucks for them,” I thought. “It’s not going to be me.” I went into labor around 4PM, two... Continue reading →

When Erin Richardson, already a single mother to a toddler, felt her water break at 23-weeks pregnant, she suddenly faced an impossible decision—a life-or-death decision. Against her doctor’s advice, she chose to do everything possible to save her son’s life.... Continue reading →

When someone tells you that becoming a doctor takes 7 years of college, it’s a lie. Doctors typically go through more like 11 to 14 years of training after high school, leaving them with a cool $200,000 of debt. During... Continue reading →

I threw my cup of water at my husband and yelled, “I want a divooorce.” What led up to this wasn’t years of a difficult marriage. Nor was it some awful discovery, like an affair. We’d just had a new... Continue reading →